Governmental Inaction Quotes

What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on any lessons they might have drawn from it. Variant: What experience and history teach is this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.

Like their predecessors, the Presidents of today just throw up their hands.

The government was unable to avert or to control the course of events.

Since last year, our politics have become very anxiety-ridden, and President Xi is facing passive resistance across the country. There is widespread inaction from local elites and local governments. Nobody opposes, but nobody does anything.

American government has seemed to mean naught but impotence and unavailing words.

It's only in America where there seems to be this sort of systematic denial of the reality of global warming at the governmental level, and in too many sectors of the high, the private sector. But it looks to me the business community may actually lead us toward a clean energy future almost in spite of government policy.

Today, I think the attitude is that governing is not necessarily good politics, and the result is that it's much more partisan and much more divided.

The real scandal in Washington is not what is against the law. It is what is not against the law.

We have this idea of bureaucracy in local government, and it's generally things that we're frustrated at. It doesn't work the way we like it to work.

Never has any one office had so much power as the President of the United States possesses. Never has so powerful a leader been so impotent to do what he wants to do, what he is pledged to do and what he knows he must do.

It is absolutely unacceptable to think that in the last year of the president's term, that he should stop doing his job, and he won't.

Crowdsourcing aid is a cunning way to work around the do-nothing corridors of official Washington. But it also raises complicated questions about the nature of humanitarianism and what it means for a 'nation' to help.